The Unyielding Promise of Nigeria’s Mining Sector (2), By Fatima Ibrahim Maikore
The main driver of the illegal activities that are the bane of the sector is the fact that the products of illegal mining activities keep finding access to both the local and international markets. Therefore, the dealers – both the traders and exporters of the products of illicit mining activities…
What Is Nigeria’s Notre Dame?, By Jibrin Ibrahim
I remembered my visit, years ago, to the excellent Kainji Games reserve, with its abundance of wild life and the Kainji Lake itself, which could have been a centre for aquatic sports. For the three days we were at the reserve, my family members were the only tourists. The Yankari…
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Creative Thinking: The New Secret To Success With Vocational Training, By Adetola Salau
The way the design thinking process works is that the end user is put in mind first and it also involves the participation of both the designers (students) and the customer. This collaboration and gathering of information are highly coveted qualities that are necessary in the workplace. And, these are…
Politics Is Not A Game For Gentlemen, By Simbo Olorunfemi
The gentlemen who come into politics must remember that it takes more than a philistinic fidelity to one's own ideas to attain power. Getting hold of political power involves a lot of negotiation, strategising, compromising and building bridges. It is a fallacy for anyone to assume ideas by themselves, without…
Laughter As Political Medicine, By Azu Ishiekwene
It might seem unfair to attach Zelensky to a family tree of ideologically deranged forbears. Indeed, the sentiment in some Western capitals is that here, at last, is the man with whom the West can do business. But as surely as the fruit never falls too far from the tree,…
Atiku Was Born In Nigeria, By Majeed Dahiru
To proceed in this unfortunate error of impugning on Atiku’s legitimate status as a Nigerian citizen by birth will be to delegitimise the citizen status by birth of Nigeria’s foremost founding fathers - Ahmadu Bello (1910), Obafemi Awolowo (1909) and Nnamdi Azikiwe (1904) who were mostly born before the 1914…
World Malaria Day: Saluting the Efforts of Nigeria’s Health Champions, By W. Stuart Symington
This World Malaria Day, we are proud to reaffirm the commitment of the United States to continuing this global progress and ending malaria in Nigeria. And I extend our hand in partnership to all of those who will join us. Zero malaria starts with me, you, and everyone working together…
Why Malami Must Not Return As AGF/Justice Minister, By Godwin Onyeacholem
The death knell for a much-anticipated revolutionary justice system, and indeed the Buhari administration’s promised war against corruption, sounded the moment Abubakar Malami, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, was awarded the post of Attorney General and Minister of Justice in Buhari’s unduly delayed first list of cabinet ministers. With that…
The Church, the Rich and Easter, By Banji Ojewale
...the social parties the nation witnessed across the country on Easter Sunday, along with all other secular and so-called religious ones, constitute an abominable disavowal of what Jesus stood for. He was (and remains so) a friend of the poor, the deprived and the denied. But the wealthy class and…
Widows, Orphans and the Price of Failed Governance, By Zainab Suleiman Okino
The Zamfara tragedy, coming shortly after Boko Haram’s devastation of the a lot about the declining glory of this vast and rich Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno once disclosed that the insurgency has left in its trail, 54,911 widows and 52,311 orphans, and they are still counting. There is this…
